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| Tarazona,Alonso Soto; Zerpa,Lely Solari; Mendoza Requena,Daniel; Llanos-Cuentas,Alejandro; Magill,Allan. |
| OBJECTIVE: To determine the sensitivity and specificity of the rapid diagnostic test OptiMAL® for diagnosis of Plasmodium vivax malaria. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We included all the patients who sought medical attention in the San Martin Pangoa Hospital, Junin, an area endemic for vivax malaria in Peru, between October and December 1998, who had fever during the previous 72 hours and who were older than 12 months. The gold standard for diagnosis was thick blood film microscopy. We determined the parasitemia rate for each of the positive slides. We calculated sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value and negative predictive value of the test. RESULTS: We included 72 patients; 39 of them were positive for P. vivax by microscopic examination. The... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: OptiMAL; Malaria; Plasmodium vivax; Diagnosis; Dipstick. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702004000200005 |
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